Beautiful sunny and warm temps up to 17 Deg. with calm to light breeze this weekend, water temps 43 Deg. in the mornings up to 45 during the day. Over a week of strong winds and cool temperatures right at ice off put the lake in great shape. Small chironomids have been coming off and fish have been active. Fish are being caught on various leech patterns, scuds and chironomids to size 12 even though 16’s have been coming off only.
Tunkwa Lake iced off Tuesday late afternoon, high winds pushed the ice to the North shore line. Cool temps and moderate winds out of the North will have conditions chilly out there.
Tunkwa is showing open water in our campground bay, be a week before it ices off unless tomorrows forecast of windy (42km gusts) weather and warm temps blow it to the North shoreline. It was above freezing last night and … Continue reading
We have had close to a week of mid teens temperatures by the afternoons with just below 0 temps at night, the last few days the highs have been around 8, overnight just around 0. The upcoming week highs are … Continue reading
Old Man Winter has loosened it’s grip yesterday with above freezing temperatures during the day and just above freezing overnight. Daytime temperatures forecast in the low teens starting next Friday but over night it drops to below freezing. Were staring … Continue reading
Fishing has slowed down a bit, fish to 19 inches were caught during the week on dew worms, shrimp and krill. A few reports of larger fish getting broken off by line snaps trying to get them out of the … Continue reading
Very slushy/wet conditions currently on the lake with the snow from the last snowfall and above freezing temps. Ice is around 14 inches thick. Fishing was good on Friday but Saturday they were tight lipped. Fish were caught on krill, … Continue reading
Milder temps have arrived after the cold snap last week, temps are around 0 during the day and -5 overnight, outlook show temps above freezing the upcoming week. We have had about a foot of snow the past week, some … Continue reading
Ice is 9-10 inches thick, 2-3 inches of snow fell overnight which is the most we’ve seen this winter. Forecast is calling for 5-10 cm Sunday night into Monday with temperature droping later in the week which should increase the … Continue reading